Oven, refrigerator, and similar receptacle.



E. RICHARDSON. ovrm, REFRIGERATOR, AND SIMILAR REGEPTAGLE.

APPLIOATIOH FILED JULY 20, 1911..

Patented Jan.2, 1912.

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ERNEST RICHARDSON, or IBEAVER'EALLS, rmmsYLvAiim;

OVEN, REFRIGERATOR, AN-DSIMILAR nEcErrAcLE.

Specification ofLetters Patent.

Application filed July 20, 1911. Serial 170. 639,637. Y

structed that the shelves may bew'holly or partially withdrawn from their supports. I prefer to make the parts of wire because of its lightness and cheapness, and also because wire permits the construction of open work which can be readily cleaned.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a horizontal section through an vention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the lining of a side of the oven with a shelf support thereon, the top, bottom, and back linings being in vertical section. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a shelf-support showing a fragment of a shelf in its partially withdrawn position. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a shelf adapted to the shelf supports.

On the drawing, 1, 2, 3, and 4 designate corner posts, to the outer faces of which the outer plates or sides 5, 6, and .7 of the oven are attached. 8, 9, and 10 designate the linings. standing opposite the respective sides 5, 6, and 7 and attached to the inner faces of the said posts, 11 is the bottom plate and 12 the top lining for the oven; and 13 is the door-hinged to the post :1 and adapted to close the front of the .oven. 'No novelty is claimed for the structure so far described. I

For the present invention the inclosing walls of the oven, refrigerator, or analogous article may be constructed as desired, provided it will permit the shelf-supports and shelves hereinafter described to operate in themanner intended.

To each of the side walls or linings 8 and 10, I secure a shelf support vconstructed A substantially rectangular frame of wire is formed having the vertical members 14 and 15 and the upper and lower horizontal members 16 and 17, the latter member 17 resting on the botthe preferred form of my in tom 11 and provided with horizontal feet 18 also resting on the bottom 11 and projecting support the frame more firmly and keep it from any tendency to warp toward the interior of the oven. Theframe described normally rests flat against the adjacent lining and has the forwardly projecting wire hooks or hinge members 19 which rest and swing in the eyes or mating hinge members 20 secured to the linings 8 and 10. The members 14 and .15 are connected together by any desired number of horizontal shelf support-ing wires 21 which have their end portions bent toward the walls of the oven so that into the oven slightly to form rails or., rests for the slidable shelves presently to be" described. g

Each shelf is preferably a rectangular frame of wire having the sides'22, 23, 24. and 25, the sides 23 and 25 being joined by the intermediate portions pro ectv Patented Jan. 2,1912.

toward the interior of the oven to the parallel horizontal wires '26. When the shelf is wholly in the oven, the sides 22 and 24 lie close to and parallel with the oven sides 7 and 5, and a portion of the sides 23 and 25 lie upon the wires with a stop in the form of a piece of wire 26 which extends downwardly about the diameter of the wlres 21 and then outwardly parallel with proximately to the adjacent side 22 or 24:. The sides 16 and, 17 ofthe swinging shelfsupporting frame have connected thereto a vertical wire which has the outwardly-extending loops or bends 27 connected to each shelf-supporting wire 21 atthe place marked 28 which is close to the point where its front end is bent toward the adjacent side of the oven. I have connected the wires 21 to the upper part of the outer end loops 27 in order that the stop. wires 26 will, when the shelves are drawn outwardly, engage the loops, which constitute stops for the wires 26.

A shelf when in Figs. 1 and 3 obtains leverage on both sides of its supporting wires 21,'and can sustain such articles as are'usually placed in ovens or the food compartments or refrigerators, or the like. When the shelves are 26 lie back of the inwardly projecting portions of the supporting wires 21 (Fig. 2), so

21. The side 25' is provided on its under side near each end pushed entirely into the oven, the stops the wire 25 so as to ex -tend under the adjacent wire 21 and apthat the rear ends of the shelves may be lifted and the shelves then drawn forwardly the hooks 29, the sides lfiibeing provided -1. In an oven,

. receptacle, a'pair of opposing vertical wire ceptacle, and wire with the bends 30. to receive. the hooks in order to prevent any sliding of the-frames. I do not limit my invention to the simultane ous employment'of the hinges-and the hooks in the same oven or other structure.

I claim refrigerator, or the like, a receptacle, a pair of opposing vertical wire frames, each frame having opposing horizontal shelf-supporting wires connected thereto and a shelf slidable on the opposing wires and having at its rear portion an outwardly projecting finger adapted to extend below the adjacent shelf-supporting wire, a vertical support for'the forward end of the shelfsupporting wires having a stop in the path of the shelf when drawn outwardly with the finger beneath the said wire, and means for securing the frames tothe interior walls of the receptacle.

2. In an oven, refrigerator, or the like, a

frames, each frame having opposing horizontal shelf-supporting wiresconnected thereto and projecting into the receptacle, a shelf slidable on the opposing wires and having at its rear portion an'outwardly projecting finger adapted to extend below the cent shelf-supporting wire, a vertical support for the forward end of the shelf-supportingwires having a stop in thepath of the shelf when drawn outwardly with the finger beneath the said wire, hingereyes se cured to pposing interior walls of "the-Ire hinge-extensions. on the framescoiiperating with the hinge-eyes.

' said intermediate projecting into the receptacle,

3. In an oven, tacle, a shelf-support composed of a wire frame, having vertical side and horizontal top and bottom members, horizontal shelfsupporting wires having their ends attached to the sald vertical members and their intermediate portions extending inwardly parallelwith the said top and bottom members, means supporting the said inwardly extending portions of the shelf-supporting wires, and shelves slidable on the said wires and having fingers lying normally back of the adapted to ride beneath the said wires when the shelves are drawn forwardly.

4. In an oven, refrigerator, or like receptacle, a shelf-support composed of .a wire frame, having vertical side and horizontal top and bottom members, horizontal shelfsupporting wires having their ends attached to the said vertical members and their intermediate portions extending inwardly parallel with the said top and bottom members,

means supporting the 'said inwardly extending portions of the shelf-supporting wires, and shelves slidable on the said wires and having fingers adapted to ride beneath the said wires when th shelves are drawn forwardly.

5. In an oven, refrigerator, or like receptacle, a shelf-support. composed of a wire frame, having vertical side and horizontal top and bottom members, horizontal shelfsupporting wires having their ends attached to the said vertical members and their intermediate portions extending inwardly paralportions of the ,wires and refrigerator, or like receplel with the said top and bottom members,

means supporting the said inwardly extending portionsof the shelf-support1ng wires, shelves slidable on the said wires and having fingers adapted toride beneath the said wires when the shelves are drawn forwardly, and stops on the forward portion of the frame located so as to be in the path ofthe said fin ers when the frame'is moved forwardly. igned at Pittsburgh, Pa., this 18th day of July, A. D. 1911'.

a ERNEST RICHARDSON/ Witnesses: v j :ALICE E. DUFF, f F. N. BARBER. 

